Jamalpur Correspondent :
The poor and marginal farmers as well as officials concerned of DAE are expecting a satisfactory price and production of mustard in seven upazilas of the district during the current season.
Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) official said favourable weather, timely sowing of seed and using of balanced fertilizer behind the bumper production of the crop.
DAE office sources said a total of 20,130 hectares of land have been brought under mustard cultivation in the district with a production target of 23,754 tonnes of mustard. Deputy Director of BADC (seed marketing) M Reazul Islam said BADC distributed seven varieties of mustard seeds among the farmers in the district through its dealers.
Most of the farmers cultivated BARI-14 and Tory-7 varieties mustard due to short duration varieties. Farmer can harvest the two varieties of mustard in 75 days to 80 days from sowing it, he added
DAE office sources said mustard grows well in the temperature between 13 degree to 20 degree Celsius and low fogging. The weather was favorable for mustard cultivation this year. Harvesting of mustard will begin within a week.
BSS from Rangpur adds: Agriculture experts have said cultivation of mustard has been expanding satisfactorily under new cropping pattern making farm-activities more profitable for the farmers amid changing climatic conditions in recent years.
The new cropping pattern of “Short duration Aman rice- mustard or potato-mungbean- short duration Aus (pariza) rice” evolved by RDRS Bangladesh also enables the farmers in getting four crops annually from the same land, they said.
They made these observations at a farmers’ field day arranged for harvesting high yielding variety BARI Sorisha-14 and exhibiting its cultivation technology in village Daud Sabuzpara under Sadar upazila of Nilphamari on Sunday afternoon.
RDRS Bangladesh and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agriculture University (BSMRAU) jointly organised the event with assistance of Krishi Gobeshona Foundation (KGF) and Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE).
District Training Officer of the DAE for Nilphamari Aftab Hossain attended the field day as the chief guest and inaugurated harvesting of BARI Sorisha-14 mustard in the field of farmer Mahindra Chandra Roy of the village.
With Member of Ward No-1 of local Tupamari union Prohlad Roy in the chair, Acting Nilphamari Sadar Upazila Agriculture Officer Tanvir Ahmed Sarker attended the event as the special guest.
Head of the Training Division of International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Dr Noel Magor, its Bangladesh Representative Dr Ahmed Salauddin, Agriculture & Environment Coordinator of RDRS Bangladesh Mamunur Rashid and its Programme Coordinator for Nilphamari district unit KM Rashedul Arefin attended, among others.
More than 200 male and female farmers of the area, officials of the DAE and RDRS Bangladesh, public representatives, local community leaders and journalists attended the occasion.
Research Assistant of Krishi Gobeshona Foundation Mohidul Islam delivered welcome speech narrating the new cropping pattern and cultivation technologies for increasing food production in attaining sustainable food security amid changing climate.
The poor and marginal farmers as well as officials concerned of DAE are expecting a satisfactory price and production of mustard in seven upazilas of the district during the current season.
Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) official said favourable weather, timely sowing of seed and using of balanced fertilizer behind the bumper production of the crop.
DAE office sources said a total of 20,130 hectares of land have been brought under mustard cultivation in the district with a production target of 23,754 tonnes of mustard. Deputy Director of BADC (seed marketing) M Reazul Islam said BADC distributed seven varieties of mustard seeds among the farmers in the district through its dealers.
Most of the farmers cultivated BARI-14 and Tory-7 varieties mustard due to short duration varieties. Farmer can harvest the two varieties of mustard in 75 days to 80 days from sowing it, he added
DAE office sources said mustard grows well in the temperature between 13 degree to 20 degree Celsius and low fogging. The weather was favorable for mustard cultivation this year. Harvesting of mustard will begin within a week.
BSS from Rangpur adds: Agriculture experts have said cultivation of mustard has been expanding satisfactorily under new cropping pattern making farm-activities more profitable for the farmers amid changing climatic conditions in recent years.
The new cropping pattern of “Short duration Aman rice- mustard or potato-mungbean- short duration Aus (pariza) rice” evolved by RDRS Bangladesh also enables the farmers in getting four crops annually from the same land, they said.
They made these observations at a farmers’ field day arranged for harvesting high yielding variety BARI Sorisha-14 and exhibiting its cultivation technology in village Daud Sabuzpara under Sadar upazila of Nilphamari on Sunday afternoon.
RDRS Bangladesh and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agriculture University (BSMRAU) jointly organised the event with assistance of Krishi Gobeshona Foundation (KGF) and Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE).
District Training Officer of the DAE for Nilphamari Aftab Hossain attended the field day as the chief guest and inaugurated harvesting of BARI Sorisha-14 mustard in the field of farmer Mahindra Chandra Roy of the village.
With Member of Ward No-1 of local Tupamari union Prohlad Roy in the chair, Acting Nilphamari Sadar Upazila Agriculture Officer Tanvir Ahmed Sarker attended the event as the special guest.
Head of the Training Division of International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Dr Noel Magor, its Bangladesh Representative Dr Ahmed Salauddin, Agriculture & Environment Coordinator of RDRS Bangladesh Mamunur Rashid and its Programme Coordinator for Nilphamari district unit KM Rashedul Arefin attended, among others.
More than 200 male and female farmers of the area, officials of the DAE and RDRS Bangladesh, public representatives, local community leaders and journalists attended the occasion.
Research Assistant of Krishi Gobeshona Foundation Mohidul Islam delivered welcome speech narrating the new cropping pattern and cultivation technologies for increasing food production in attaining sustainable food security amid changing climate.
